Mary Beard

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Arguably the world’s most famous classicist, Mary Beard has an incredible talent for making ancient history engaging for everyone. Her fascination with the past began at the age of five. During a visit to the British Museum, she saw a slice of ancient Egyptian cake on display and was thrilled when a curator opened the case and got it out for her. For nearly forty years, she was a Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge before retiring in 2022. She’s also a TV and radio presenter, classics editor for the Times Literacy Supplement and has written numerous books on classical history and culture. Her latest book, Emperor of Rome, is out now.

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0:00.0	The best day ever.
0:03.2	Whoa, look out, Storm Chasers!
0:05.7	Brace yourself for Tornado Springs.
0:08.5	With some serious spinning, thrilling and roller coaster in!
0:12.3	Discover a Lost Kingdom.
0:14.7	A Jurassic World with dinosaurs, two world-class coasters, and a lovable pig.
0:21.0	Wait, what?
0:22.5	Hello, I'm Pepper Pink.
0:24.9	Come and meet Pepper and her friends at Pepper Big World, Pepper's very own theme park.
0:30.4	And because one day won't do, book an official short break and get your second Park Day free.
0:36.5	Exclusions apply
0:37.5	potent park
0:39.3	this is a global player original podcast Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast project conceived exclusively to let me spend more time than I'd ever get on the radio with fascinating people.
1:10.4	Mary Beard,
1:11.0	welcome. Nice to be here. Well, it's lovely to have you here. Classist, broadcaster, best-selling author,
1:17.1	dame. I mean, where do we begin? Sounds like a pantomumann character, doesn't it? Oh, no, it doesn't.
1:24.4	We'll begin at the beginning. I, I, I, I, uh, mum was a headmistress, I think.
1:28.3	So the academia was writ large from the get-go.
1:32.1	Yeah, she was the village school mistress in the village that I grew up
1:35.8	and she later went on to be head of a bigger junior school.
1:39.4	But she wasn't pushy, though.
1:42.2	I mean, I'm sure there was a bit of teacherly instinct coming out, but I never really noticed it.
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